Mwingi central district officer Ms Stella Gichamba points out that due to high infidelity among spouses, HIV/AIDS is spreading fast among married partners more than among commercial sex workers.

According to Chris Murray, deputy director of the Tarus centre which is a safe house for girls escaping female genital mutilation, the practice is performed at government funded clinics and has caused the practice to increase, even as much is done to eradicate it. However, Maraga ole Wotuli adds

Pastor Joel Odondi who fourteen years ago shrugged off the idea of male circumcision because it was unheard of in his Luo community is now after circumcision is a crusader of male circumcision, talking to his congregants, fellow pastors, relatives, and friends about the benefits of the procedure.

Studies conducted by an organization known as Support for Addictions Prevention and Treatment in Africa find there is a direct correlation between vulgar music, drug addiction and HIV infection. SAPTA’s executive director William Sinkele says the national AIDS control council should include

Somali communities in Wajir, Mandera and Garissa have over the years treated curable infections like tuberculosis as dangerous diseases that lack treatment and whose carriers are regarded as cursed people. According to TB coordinator in northern Kenya, Mr. Abdi Bashey, the disease has spread to e

George Wachira opines that the population has doubled over the last three decades and incremental healthcare capacity has neither matched this growth nor sufficiently matched technological sophistication in medical care, with medical manpower attrition in public hospitals being high due to low mo

Pauline Amollo, a policy analyst and consultant explains that the budgetary allocations becomes a key indicator of strides that government is making towards improving the health sector, and the fact that Kenya is yet to achieve even half (as it stands at 6.5%) of the expected 15% is a clear indic

Women living in fringe areas, mostly those occupied by pastoralist communities face systematic injustices, and it’s for that reason that Lois Toiwon who is the Samburu Women Initiative for Development coordinator decided to establish together with others a community radio Serian FM, to rely